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Victoria C. Woodhull: Our civilization and our Christianity have been made too much a matter of faith in, and devotion to, the unknowable…

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Our civilization and our Christianity have been made too much a matter of faith in, and devotion to, the unknowable, divorced from all human relations.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull emphasizes the disconnect between spiritual beliefs and human relationships in her critique of civilization and Christianity.

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